Good progress this month! Good to see it running on Windows now, even if I don't use Windows myself anymore. That'll help boost adoption once it releases.
Seems though as if the WPT score is not super meaningful in measuring actual usability. The growth of passed tests seems suspiciously uniform across browsers, so I guess it has more to do with new passing tests being added and less with failing tests that got fixed.
A large amount of tests includes rendering text and basic elements correctly, which is an incredibly difficult problem. Getting JS to render right is one thing, but preventing bugs like "Google Maps works but completely breaks when a business has õ in its name" requires a lot of seemingly useless tests to pass.
Fixing a few rendering issues could fix all of the tests that depend on correct rendering but break, so I think the rate at which tests are fixed makes a lot of sense.
https://wpt.fyi/results shows that even the big players have room for improvement, but also has a nice breakdown of all the different kinds of tests that make up the score.
This will be what Otter Browser failed to do in order to create a widely used browser written in QT after Konqueror under KDE3 days. And, well, the same with Falkon/Qupzilla.
Ladybird might be the next Opera but without reusing the Blink engine making it a Chromium clone. And, OFC, fully libre.
While I truly admire how much progress they’ve made, and respect that everyone should pursue whatever they feel like doing with their time, it still feels to me like such a waste that it’s not written in a modern memory safe language.
I fear it’s ultimately going to be the most promising, least safe browser to use.
But hey, I want to be proven wrong, so I still gave them some money…
Very cool! Impressive how they are improving and developing month by month! I sounds like they aren't far away from having a useable browser, but I think remembering hearing Andreas Kling tell that it's still years away from "finished"?
Due to getting some funding [1] they have been able to onboard more paid people [2].
I'm super excited to see this as an alternative to the mainstream browsers. It's also interesting how quickly it pulled in-front of projects such as servo that have been going since 2021 and received a lot of backing over that period [3].
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 28.1 ms ] threadSeems though as if the WPT score is not super meaningful in measuring actual usability. The growth of passed tests seems suspiciously uniform across browsers, so I guess it has more to do with new passing tests being added and less with failing tests that got fixed.
Fixing a few rendering issues could fix all of the tests that depend on correct rendering but break, so I think the rate at which tests are fixed makes a lot of sense.
https://wpt.fyi/results shows that even the big players have room for improvement, but also has a nice breakdown of all the different kinds of tests that make up the score.
Ladybird might be the next Opera but without reusing the Blink engine making it a Chromium clone. And, OFC, fully libre.
I fear it’s ultimately going to be the most promising, least safe browser to use.
But hey, I want to be proven wrong, so I still gave them some money…
I'm super excited to see this as an alternative to the mainstream browsers. It's also interesting how quickly it pulled in-front of projects such as servo that have been going since 2021 and received a lot of backing over that period [3].
[1] https://ladybird.org/#sponsors
[2] https://ladybird.org/posts/mike-shaver-joins-board/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)